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Originally Posted by ArumTP
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My personal issues with DKP
-large un-ascend-ablely large DKP pools that can grow.
This is a problem that is more unique to P99 than in live. On live we had more and more new content and items to spend our points on. On here we stagnate, there isn't a new continuous flow of BiS items to go spend it on.
Its pretty easy to go full planar (and even sometimes full sky as well) but the next step VP/dragon/god loots is a point that people get locked out on. It becomes all you can spend it on, and you just never get it, so the dkp just piles up. Other toons in a guild end up in the same spot, and soon all you have is a guild force that needs nothing but that top tier loot, and no means to acquire it.
Pools get so large that DKP has no value, it doesn't matter if you have 1 or 1000 dkp if you got nothing to spend it on.
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The problem you describing is a function of playing on a static server, not a problem caused by dkp systems. If you cap your dkp hoarding rules, say at 100 dkp, you still have the exact same problem if there is no loot to spend it on anymore.
You'll see some of the hoarders tap into the dkp pools in velious to get some hot items first...but you'll be in the same boat in 3 years...or 5 years...or 7 years.
Its a static server. Loot eventually loses its meaning compared to live. There are a couple of exceptions, but by and large, this is the future if this server survives long enough to get there.
This is why I don't understand why there is so much loot loving on this server. In the end, even the best items in the game are going to be worth far far less than you could ever have imagined them being on live. You'd think this setup would lure the folks who love to play EQ for "non-loot" reasons---when the reality of p99 is that (at least it seems without knowing the data) most of the server is engaged in never ending attempts to acquire more loot.
I mean, to each their own. I'm obviously wrong (or at least in the minority) when it comes to how I play the game here. Its just surprising to me how many folks on p99 are playing so "hard-core" when they know the server isn't going anywhere after velious launch/patches. On live, we played that way because you had to maintain your advantage for the next expansion.